Dr. Michael K. Obeng, a board certified plastic surgeon, explains buccal fat removal and what anyone considering the procedure needs to know Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health ...

For the past two weeks, many “For You” pages on TikTok have been inundated with images of celebrities with hollowed cheeks, sky-high cheekbones and snatched jawlines. The videos have all suggested the ...

Across social media, many users, primarily younger women, are buzzing about a plastic surgery technique called buccal fat removal. While the procedure is simple and has been around for years, it's ...

So what is buccal (pronounced ‘buckle’) fat? According to Dr. Konstantin Vasyukevich, a double-board certified plastic surgeon, buccal fat is a pouch of, well, fat, in your face that maintains volume ...

A new photo of Lea Michele's defined cheeks created social media chatter around buccal fat removal surgery. Plastic surgeons said buccal fat, or cheek fat, removal and other jaw-defining procedures ...

For the past two weeks, many “For You” pages on TikTok have been inundated with images of celebrities with hollowed cheeks, sky-high cheekbones and snatched jawlines. Subscribe to read this story ...

For anyone in the market, there are numerous ways to get a new face—not just Botox, facelifts and nose jobs, but injectable fillers, thread lifts and adhesive tape, among others. Now, yet another face ...

Amber Rapp, 28, underwent buccal fat removal surgery last year after thinking about it for a decade. Interest in buccal fat, or cheek fat, removal has spiked in the last few years, plastic surgeons ...

On TikTok, millions are being exposed to homogenous images of what modern beauty is supposed to be. Instead of round full faces, we're now seeing chiseled jawlines. Hollowed cheekbones. Defined chins.

Ehlie Luna always wants to be on the cutting edge of every celebrity beauty trend, but she’s not looking to go under the knife. In December, she was in awe when she saw a photo of “Funny Girl” star ...